My contribution to this exhibition is a small selection of photographs is from a single space: a collection of surfaces around a piazza in Chiusa Sclafani, Sicily. Over the last twenty years, I have been photographing, collecting and archiving ‘unconscious’ drawings and paintings. These are sections of walls or floors that have all the attributes of visual art: texture, complexity, diversity of mark, gesture and arresting colour combinations. However, these drawings are not created from first principles by an artist to exhibit in a gallery. They are the result of human activity: of re-posting information in a single place, re-painting and restructuring walls, changing usage, using graffiti. They are the result of natural forces acting on these surfaces: of wind, rain, decomposition, mould, heat and humidity. Certain spaces are redolent with histories: things have happened there. Traces can felt or imagined through time. This space is one of those.